Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives a simple life and works as a cookware salesperson for a New Orleans retail outlet. This all changes when she finds out that she has a fatal disease and has a couple of weeks to live. So she quits her job, takes out all her life savings, and travels to Europe for a dream holiday vacation to live out the rest of her days. With her new look on life, she tries everything she has always dreamed about.